#Ghostscript for mac how to#
#Ghostscript for mac pdf#

This is what its looks like after the addition of the LBP8 device:ĭEVICE_DEVS6=$(DD)v $(DD)v $(DD)v $(DD)v $(DD)v This is what it looked like by default:ĭEVICE_DEVS6=$(DD)v $(DD)v $(DD)v $(DD)v For example, if you were add support for a Canon LBP8 (not complied by default), just add '$(DD)v' without the quotes to DEVICE_DEVS6. Just find the printer you're after in either dev.mak or contrib.mak then open Makefile.in which is located in the ghostscript root source tree and add that device to one of the DEVICE_DEVS lines. A list of all the devices included with ghostscript can be found in the files contrib.mak and dev.mak in the src/ directory in the ghostscript source distrbution or here on gnu.org. Ghostscript has support for loads of devices but only a small few are compiled in by default. Then unzip libpng, zlib and jpeg into the ghostscript folder and rename each of the unzipped folders to correspond with the names above. OS X Developer ToolsLinks to the lastest libpng, zlib, jpeg and ghostscript can all be found on gnu.org.% sudo chmod 755 /usr/libexec/cups/filter/cupsomaticHere's what you need to build ghostscript: In your terminal type: % sudo cp cupsomatic /usr/libexec/cups/filter/ So you can set the enscript command to this or create a file /etc/foomatic/nf with a line 'textfilter: enscript' then copy the cupsomatic script file to /usr -> libexec -> cups -> filter and chmod 755. Once you have it, you need to set the Postscript to text converter command in the script but luckily OSX has 'enscrpt' included. The cupsomatic script is available from here on the site.

#Ghostscript for mac pdf#

pdf using lpr or dropping the file to the printer in the Print Center to a Canon LBP8 using LPD on a UNIX server with success. I'm sure someone could shed some light on the reason why. Can print from lpr or by dropping files into the Print Center.

Some problems: Can't print from applications.

, but in order to use most of them you need ghostscript and the device (printer) you want to use compiled into the gs binary. There are a lot of PPD device filters available at The reason for building this is so you can use PPDs files with the cupsomatic filter.

#Ghostscript for mac how to#

Here's how to build Ghostscript to include new devices for printing with OS 10.2 CUPS printing system.